Dip one side of you paintbrush in the lighter green and one side in the dark.

After double loading the paintbrush, start on one side of the leaf and drag your paintbrush to a point. The burlap creates some resistance, so this can be a little difficult! Once you’ve painted one half of the leaf, do the same thing on the other half.

Here’s a video that explains how to make the leaves! It looks a lot easier to do in the video! Just be patient and you’ll be able to make it work!

As you can see, not all my leaves are perfect! Oh well!!

Next, we’re going to start our flowers!!

Take both your light and dark blue and paint a base layer.

I painted the tops light blue, the bottoms dark blue, and the middle is a mixture of the two.

Now comes the fun part!!

You’re going to take your rounded, flat brush and paint little five petal flowers all over the place.

Think of the flower as a little man. Paint a head, two arms, and two legs. The first few might look rough but after you paint a few you’ll become a master!!

Alternate painting with the light and dark blue. Don’t clean off your brush in between the colors, this allows them to mix and create a different shade of blue.

When you’re almost done, but still have a few empty spots, start painting three of four petal flowers to fill gaps. You can also randomly add single petals to fill up any additional spaces.

All of our flowers have been painted! Now, it’s time to paint the flower centers!

Take your small, pointy brush and use white (or any other color you’d like) and paint little dots in the center of each flower.

This step was tricky for me, because I couldn’t tell where the center of some of the flowers were! If you’re struggling like I was, just randomly place the dots! No one has to know that you guessed!